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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Hooked On Others (Part 2) | March 18, 2025
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- [voiceover] from the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is pathway to victory with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome again
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- To pathway to victory.
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- Most people go through life acting
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- As if they're the main character
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- And everyone else is just an extra.
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- But what if the store clerk or your neighbor
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- Or your coworker were more than just side characters,
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- But people you were called to serve?
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- Today, i want to encourage you to be more like jesus
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- By viewing your everyday encounters
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- As opportunities for ministry.
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- My message is titled, hooked on others
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- On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ it's not conservative or liberal ♪
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- ♪ however they defined ♪
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- ♪ it's not about interpretation ♪
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- ♪ or the judgment of the mind ♪
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- ♪ it's the opposite of politics, power or prestige ♪
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- ♪ it's about a simple message and whether we believe ♪
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- ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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- ♪ it's still the blood of calvary ♪
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- ♪ that cleanses sin ♪
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- ♪ and sets the captive free ♪
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- ♪ it's still the name ♪
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- ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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- ♪ and his power to save the lost ♪
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- ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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- ♪ though some may say it's man's religion ♪
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- ♪ or an ancient history ♪
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- ♪ the cross of jesus still remains ♪
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- ♪ the price for sin ♪
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- ♪ it sets us free, oh ♪
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- -♪ it's still the cross ♪ -♪ it's the cross ♪
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- ♪ it's the blood ♪
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- ♪ oh, it cleanses us, it cleanses our sin ♪
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- ♪ and sets us free ♪
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- ♪ still remain ♪
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- ♪ jesus, his power, oh ♪
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- ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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- ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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- ♪ it's the cross, the cross ♪
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- ♪ it's still the cross ♪
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- -♪ thank god ♪ -♪ it's still the cross ♪
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- ♪ for the cross ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ music ♪
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- The bible says if we're going to be serious
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- About ministry, first of all,
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- We need to be involved in teaching one another,
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- But there's a second word here about ministry that paul uses
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- And that is we are also to admonish one another.
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- Look at verse 16.
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- "let the word of christ richly dwell within you
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- With all wisdom teaching and admonishing."
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- Now that word admonish means to correct or to warn.
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- If you're going to help people
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- Become followers of jesus christ,
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- It means we need to warn people.
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- But what do we warn them of?
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- Well, for non-christians, we warn people
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- Of the consequences of dying without faith in jesus christ,
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- But we're also to be involved in warning christians
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- Who are disobeying god's word
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- And in danger of experiencing the consequences
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- Of that disobedience.
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- Let me ask you this question.
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- Suppose somebody came to you and they announced to you
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- That they were leaving their mate
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- Because they were no longer happy in the marriage.
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- They weren't asking your advice,
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- They were announcing what they were going to do.
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- Or teenagers, suppose that a friend of yours came and said
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- That they were dating and possibly considering marrying
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- Somebody who was a non-christian.
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- Or suppose your employer who professed to be a christian
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- Was involved in some illegal and unethical behavior.
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- What would you do in those situations?
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- Somebody who's getting ready to leave a marriage
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- For an un-biblical reason.
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- A christian who is contemplating dating
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- And marrying a non-christian.
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- A christian boss who's involved
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- In illegal and unethical behavior.
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- Most of us, what we would do, we'd remain mute.
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- We wouldn't say anything.
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- And would justify our silence with,
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- "who are we to cast stones?
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- He who's without sin, let him cast the first stone."
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- Or, "do not judge lest you be judged,"
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- Or, "let god deal with them,
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- Who am i to say anything about that?"
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- We would shirk the very real responsibility we have.
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- Paul says to admonish, to warn, to correct one another.
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- In the passage we read just a few moments ago,
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- 2nd timothy 3:16, paul said,
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- "all scripture is inspired by god
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- And is profitable for teaching, for reproof,
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- For correction, for training in righteousness."
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- Notice the four purposes of god's word.
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- Two of them have to do with correction.
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- We use god's word to reproof,
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- For reproof and for correction.
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- That is part of helping people become followers of christ,
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- When they are going on the wrong path, to warn them.
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- James 5:20 says, "it's not a hateful thing
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- To warn somebody who is involved in sin.
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- It's the most loving thing you can do for that person."
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- James 5:20, "let him know that he who turns a sinner
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- From the error of his way will save his soul from death
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- And will cover a multitude of sins."
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- Listen, when you walk by a fellow christian
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- Who is being beaten up by sin in this world
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- And you walk by and never stop to say anything to help him,
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- That's not loving.
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- That is the most unloving thing you can do
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- For another person.
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- Somebody who truly is concerned
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- About the wellbeing of a fellow christian will stop
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- And in a loving way, point out what is wrong
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- And how he can get back on the path of obedience to god.
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- It's not a pleasant part of ministry,
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- But it's an essential part of our calling from god
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- To admonish, to correct, to warn one another.
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- I hadn't been bill's pastor for very long
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- When i received a phone call from out of state.
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- It was from an irate woman and she explained to me
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- That she and bill had been lovers for several years
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- And that bill had constantly promised
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- To divorce his wife and marry her
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- And now, he was reneging on that promise
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- And she was mad about it
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- And she was about to let the whole world know
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- What this leader in our church was up to.
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- I thanked her for the phone call
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- And hung up perplexed, didn't know exactly what to do.
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- I thought if i went and confronted bill with this
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- And it turned out not to be true,
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- I'd have egg all over my face
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- And i would've severed a relationship
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- That was just getting started
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- With a key leader in our church.
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- But what if it were true?
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- If it were true and he did this thing,
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- He would ruin two families
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- And ruin the reputation of our church and our community.
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- And so after several days of wrestling with it,
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- I mustered up my courage and i made the phone call
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- To bill at his place of business
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- And i said, "bill, i wondered if i could come by
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- And talk to you after work."
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- He was kind of nervous.
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- He said, "well, yes, pastor, come on by."
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- So i stopped by his business
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- And we had a few seconds of chitchat
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- And then i got down to the purpose of the visit.
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- I said, "bill, i received this phone call,"
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- And i explained what the woman had said.
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- I said, "i have no way of knowing
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- Whether this is true or not.
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- If it's not true, please forgive me,
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- But if it is true, you're about to make a decision
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- That is going to destroy your life, your family's lives
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- And it's going to destroy the reputation of christ
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- In this community and i want to help you find a way out."
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- He didn't say anything for a few seconds
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- And then he burst into tears and he admitted it was true.
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- He said, "pastor, help me.
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- I don't know how to get out of this."
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- And over a period of weeks and months,
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- We were able to find a way out of it.
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- He restored his relationship with his wife
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- And with the church.
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- Two families were saved.
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- The reputation of christ was saved.
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- Now, i have to be honest with you.
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- Not all of my examples of admonition work out so positively.
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- I've had some real disasters talking to people
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- Who denied or rationalized, got mad and left the church,
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- Tried to hurt me and so forth.
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- But you know what?
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- We aren't responsible for the consequences.
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- The bible says we are to admonish one another
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- And leave the results to god.
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- That is part of our ministry as christians.
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- And notice, by the way, how paul says we're to go
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- About doing this.
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- When you try to correct another christian,
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- It's like performing a delicate surgical operation.
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- You have to do it, he says, in all wisdom.
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- "with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another."
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- Let me suggest to you three principles for how to warn,
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- How to admonish another christian in wisdom.
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- Write these down on your outline.
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- First of all, if you're going to correct another christian,
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- Make restoration, not retribution, your goal
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- In admonishing another christian.
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- You're not there as the judge, jury and executioner.
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- Your job is not to punish that person.
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- Your job is to help restore them.
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- 1 corinthians 5:5, paul was talking about the man caught
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- In the immoral relationship in corinth
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- And he explained why the church
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- Was going to engage in church discipline
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- And he said the purpose is that his spirit might be saved
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- In the day of christ jesus.
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- Anytime we correct another christian,
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- It's not to make ourselves look more holy.
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- It's not to meet out punishment.
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- It is to restore that person
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- To a right relationship with god.
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- Secondly, when admonishing another christian,
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- Keep it as private as possible.
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- If you're really trying to restore somebody,
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- You're going to keep this person's actions
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- As private as possible.
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- You're not going to come before your small group
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- Or the church prayer meeting and say,
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- "we need to pray for brother so and so.
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- He's involved in who-knows-what
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- And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
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- No, you keep it private.
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- Matthew chapter 18, verses 15 and 20 says,
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- "if you see a brother who's committing sin,
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- Go to him in private."
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- And if he responds, you'd won a brother.
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- If he doesn't respond, take two or three
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- From the church with you and then and only then,
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- If he doesn't respond, you tell it to the church.
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- Number three, make sure you have dealt
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- With sin in your own life
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- Before you try to correct another christian.
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- Make sure you correct sin in your own life
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- Before you try to deal with another christian.
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- Now, i'm not saying you have to wait until you're perfect
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- To admonish another christian.
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- None of us would admonish anyone if that were the criterion,
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- But what jesus is saying in matthew 7 verses 1 to 5 is this,
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- Make sure you have made every effort
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- To deal with major sin in your own life
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- Before you try to deal with that same sin
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- In somebody else's life.
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- I mean, if somebody is mixed up in adultery,
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- You don't need to go and try to correct them
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- If you're addicted to pornography.
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- You need to deal with that major sin
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- In your own life of sexual impurity
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- Before you try to deal with somebody else in that same area.
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- In matthew 7, verse 5, jesus said,
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- "you hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye
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- And then you will see clearly
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- To take the spec out of your brother's eye."
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- We do need to take the spec of sin out of our brother's eye,
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- But we need to deal with sin in our own life first,
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- So that we can see clearly how to do so.
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- We've seen so far, first of all,
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- The mandate for a ministry-focused life.
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- It's the reason god has left you and be here.
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- We've seen the method to have a life
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- That is ministry discipleship-oriented.
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- It means teaching people the word of god.
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- It means admonishing, warning other christians.
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- Now, let's look at the motivation
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- For a ministry-focused life.
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- What are the results of a life
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- That is focused on ministry rather than self?
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- Let me mention to you three motivations for having a life
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- That is ministry rather than self-focused.
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- First of all, ministry gives us a purpose for living.
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- It gives us a purpose for living.
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- A popular survey, famous survey of a group
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- Of 90 year olds asked this question,
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- If you had your life to live over again,
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- What would you do differently?
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- You know what the top three responses were?
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- Response number one, we would risk more.
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- Response number two is,
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- We wouldn't take ourselves so seriously.
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- And response number three, we would do more things
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- That will live on after we die.
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- See, that's a result of having a ministry-focused life.
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- We all need a purpose in life that's bigger
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- Than our own self entertainment.
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- We need a purpose in life that's bigger than ourselves
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- And ministry to others is that purpose.
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- Secondly, ministry helps us view adversity positively.
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- It helps us to view adversity positively.
- 00:15:07.262 --> 00:15:10.466
- Now, we're all going to run into trouble,
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- Aren't we, in this life?
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- We're going to run into problems.
- 00:15:13.135 --> 00:15:15.437
- Now, if your goal in life, if your purpose in life is self,
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- Pleasure, profit, the avoidance of pain,
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- If that's your purpose for living,
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- Then anytime you run into adversity,
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- That adversity is a tremendous detour in your life goal.
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- But when you have a purpose in life
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- That is bigger than yourself, when it's ministry-focused,
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- Even difficult times in your life
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- Can actually be positive for you
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- And that they help you minister to other people.
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- I mean in 2 corinthians chapter 1, paul says,
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- "god comforts us in our affliction, in our trouble,
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- So that we can comfort others
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- With the same comfort with which we're comforted."
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- When you experience the loss of a loved one
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- Or when you experience the breakup
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- Of an important friendship, if you're a christian,
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- God gives you supernatural comfort,
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- So that you can share with other people
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- What god has taught you in that process.
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- When ministry is your focus in life,
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- Even difficult circumstances can be a positive.
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- Paul expressed that in philippians chapter 1.
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- Remember, paul was in prison, facing what very well
- 00:16:22.504 --> 00:16:25.107
- Could have been the end of his life, his execution.
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- Was he depressed about it?
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- Was he saying, "oh, woe is me?"
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- Was he throwing a giant pity party for himself? no.
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- Listen to what he said in philippians 1.
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- He said, "now, i want you to know, philippians,
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- That my circumstances, that is my imprisonment,
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- Have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel.
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- So that my imprisonment and the cause of christ
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- Has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard
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- And everyone else."
- 00:16:49.164 --> 00:16:51.033
- Paul wasn't lamenting the fact he was imprisoned.
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- He was actually excited about it.
- 00:16:53.168 --> 00:16:55.370
- And again, if paul's purpose in life
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- Had been self-fulfillment, why,
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- His imprisonment was a great tragedy,
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- But paul's purpose was to share the gospel
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- With as many people as possible
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- And he said, "boy, this is working out great,
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- Because other people are looking at what i'm experiencing
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- And they're gaining the courage
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- To share their faith with other people."
- 00:17:14.256 --> 00:17:16.558
- You see, a life purpose that is bigger than yourself
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- Is the lens through which you view adversity
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- In life completely differently.
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- Thirdly, ministry earns us eternal rewards.
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- A ministry-focused life earns us,
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- It guarantees us eternal rewards.
- 00:17:35.077 --> 00:17:40.415
- Remember that fascinating parable jesus told in luke 16?
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- It was about a financial manager
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- Who was working for a very wealthy man.
- 00:17:46.388 --> 00:17:48.123
- The wealthy man calls him in one day and said you're fired.
- 00:17:48.123 --> 00:17:51.960
- "in three days, i want you out of here.
- 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.129
- But before you go, i want you to spend the final days,
- 00:17:54.129 --> 00:17:56.698
- Getting a final accounting together of all of my assets
- 00:17:56.698 --> 00:17:59.401
- And then you're out of here, buddy."
- 00:17:59.401 --> 00:18:01.670
- Well, the financial manager began to panic.
- 00:18:01.670 --> 00:18:03.939
- The economy was bad at that time.
- 00:18:03.939 --> 00:18:05.674
- He thought to himself, "where am i going to find
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- A lush job like this again?
- 00:18:07.409 --> 00:18:09.344
- I mean, i hate to work, i'm too proud to beg.
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- What am i going to do?"
- 00:18:11.747 --> 00:18:14.016
- But then his panic turned toward a shrewd plan
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- And the manager said to himself,
- 00:18:18.854 --> 00:18:20.088
- "this is what i'm going to do
- 00:18:20.088 --> 00:18:21.356
- These final three days of my employment."
- 00:18:21.356 --> 00:18:23.892
- And his plan was this.
- 00:18:23.892 --> 00:18:25.761
- He took all of the bills that were owed to his master
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- And he discounted those bills by 20%, 50%, 70%.
- 00:18:29.798 --> 00:18:35.103
- In other words, all the people who owed his boss money,
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- He called him in and said,
- 00:18:37.673 --> 00:18:38.941
- "congratulations, this is your lucky day.
- 00:18:38.941 --> 00:18:40.742
- I'm having this bill or i'm cutting it down by 30% or 70%."
- 00:18:40.742 --> 00:18:46.014
- Why was he doing that?
- 00:18:46.515 --> 00:18:47.549
- A very shrewd plan.
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- He knew by doing that, he would ingratiate himself
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- To these people who owed his master money and in three days,
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- When he joined the ranks of the unemployed,
- 00:18:55.424 --> 00:18:57.693
- Maybe these people would do him a favor
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- And hire him out of gratitude.
- 00:19:00.095 --> 00:19:02.331
- Very smart plan, even though it was a dishonest plan.
- 00:19:02.331 --> 00:19:06.001
- Well, when the master found out what had happened,
- 00:19:06.001 --> 00:19:08.437
- Jesus said, he called this servant in,
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- This financial manager, but instead of berating him,
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- He praised him.
- 00:19:15.844 --> 00:19:17.246
- He said, i'm not happy about having
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- All these bills discounted,
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- But i have to take my hat off to you.
- 00:19:20.282 --> 00:19:22.317
- That's a pretty shrewd plan.
- 00:19:22.317 --> 00:19:24.219
- In fact, if you had shown this much initiative
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- While you were still employed, you'd still have a job."
- 00:19:26.154 --> 00:19:29.625
- And then jesus made this application to us.
- 00:19:29.625 --> 00:19:32.828
- In luke 16, verse nine, he said,
- 00:19:32.828 --> 00:19:34.663
- "and i say to you, make friends for yourselves
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- By the means of the wealth of unrighteousness,"
- 00:19:38.967 --> 00:19:41.336
- That is money, "so that when it fails,
- 00:19:41.336 --> 00:19:44.539
- They may receive you into eternal dwellings."
- 00:19:44.539 --> 00:19:49.878
- See, the bible says we are all simply managers
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- Of a certain amount of time
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- That god's given us here on earth.
- 00:19:53.982 --> 00:19:55.751
- He's given us a certain amount of gifts and abilities,
- 00:19:55.751 --> 00:19:58.186
- A certain amount of money.
- 00:19:58.186 --> 00:19:59.688
- One day we're going to leave all of these things behind
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- And stand before god.
- 00:20:02.591 --> 00:20:04.793
- And given the brevity of this life
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- And the length of eternity, the wise person
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- Who really realizes how brief his time here on earth is,
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- He will use his present resources
- 00:20:13.135 --> 00:20:16.438
- For eternity, to prepare for eternity.
- 00:20:16.438 --> 00:20:18.907
- For a christian, that means taking that time,
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- That money, those energies that you have
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- And investing them in the lives of people
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- By making converts and disciples of christ,
- 00:20:27.616 --> 00:20:30.919
- So that when you go to heaven one day,
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- There will be people there ready to greet you
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- And there will be a god there who is ready to reward you.
- 00:20:36.258 --> 00:20:40.162
- Ministry ensures eternal rewards.
- 00:20:40.829 --> 00:20:44.299
- Gary einig tells a great story about a man
- 00:20:44.299 --> 00:20:46.568
- Who was shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- 00:20:46.568 --> 00:20:50.339
- At least he thought it was deserted
- 00:20:50.339 --> 00:20:52.874
- And he walked to the other end of the island
- 00:20:52.874 --> 00:20:54.609
- And he suddenly saw that it was populated
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- By this huge tribe.
- 00:20:56.712 --> 00:20:58.747
- The man became panicked, he was upset.
- 00:20:58.747 --> 00:21:00.549
- He didn't know if they were going to put him in a pot
- 00:21:00.549 --> 00:21:02.084
- And boil him and have him for dinner
- 00:21:02.084 --> 00:21:03.452
- Or what was going to happen.
- 00:21:03.452 --> 00:21:05.020
- But he was surprised when instead of killing him,
- 00:21:05.020 --> 00:21:07.789
- They actually took him and they placed him on a throne
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- And they put a crown on his head
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- And announced that he was king of the tribe.
- 00:21:12.427 --> 00:21:15.964
- And suddenly, he had all of these thousands of servants
- 00:21:15.964 --> 00:21:18.233
- Who were there to fulfill his every wish.
- 00:21:18.233 --> 00:21:20.402
- The guy thought, "this is pretty good.
- 00:21:20.402 --> 00:21:22.204
- Getting shipwreck wasn't so bad.
- 00:21:22.204 --> 00:21:24.106
- King of all this people, i can have whatever i want."
- 00:21:24.106 --> 00:21:27.242
- But then his joy turned to real panic.
- 00:21:27.242 --> 00:21:30.011
- When he found out from one of the tribesmen
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- What was really going on.
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- It seemed that this tribe had a custom
- 00:21:33.815 --> 00:21:35.417
- That every year, they would select one person to be the king
- 00:21:35.417 --> 00:21:38.620
- And at the end of the year, they would take that person,
- 00:21:38.620 --> 00:21:40.822
- Put him in a boat, send him over to a neighboring island
- 00:21:40.822 --> 00:21:43.759
- That was truly abandoned and leaving there to die.
- 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:47.262
- The man wondered, "what am i going to do?"
- 00:21:48.130 --> 00:21:50.699
- Then he came up with a plan.
- 00:21:50.699 --> 00:21:52.334
- He had a few months left to be king
- 00:21:52.334 --> 00:21:55.036
- And so he started ordering
- 00:21:55.036 --> 00:21:56.571
- That certain people from his tribe,
- 00:21:56.571 --> 00:21:59.541
- They sent over to that abandoned island,
- 00:21:59.541 --> 00:22:01.810
- That they would start to plant crops and grow crops.
- 00:22:01.810 --> 00:22:05.113
- Then he sent another group over there
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- To build him a palatial home
- 00:22:06.615 --> 00:22:08.917
- And then he took some of his best friends
- 00:22:08.917 --> 00:22:10.485
- And he sent them over there to start living.
- 00:22:10.485 --> 00:22:13.789
- And when the day of his departure came,
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- When they put him in that boat,
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- He was sent not to an isolated uninhabited island,
- 00:22:16.925 --> 00:22:20.529
- But one that was filled with food,
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- A beautiful home and people there to receive him.
- 00:22:22.130 --> 00:22:25.901
- Now, that's what jesus is talking about here.
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- A heavenly-minded christian is one who understands
- 00:22:29.504 --> 00:22:34.209
- How brief this life really is,
- 00:22:34.209 --> 00:22:37.379
- But instead of panicking about the brevity of life,
- 00:22:37.379 --> 00:22:40.515
- Someone who is truly heavenly-minded
- 00:22:40.515 --> 00:22:42.918
- Will use this life to prepare for the next life.
- 00:22:42.918 --> 00:22:48.190
- Paul said in 2 corinthians 5:10,
- 00:22:48.824 --> 00:22:50.659
- "for we must all appear before the judgment seat of christ,
- 00:22:50.659 --> 00:22:55.597
- That each one of us may be rewarded
- 00:22:55.597 --> 00:22:57.499
- For what we've done in the body,
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- Whether it be good or worthless."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Scripture teaches that life is like a vapor
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- That appears for a moment and then disappears into thin air.
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- Yes, our time on earth is brief
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- And i'm pleased that you invested this half hour of your day
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- Concentrating on the things that matter most.
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- Before we wrap up today's program,
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- I want to share a note received from keith in oklahoma.
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- Keith wrote, "i've listened to pathway to victory
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- For a while now and your teaching has helped me
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- To get through a lot of personal problems.
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- Plus, you've shown me that jesus christ
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- Is the true lord and savior and that in christ
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- And through christ, nothing is impossible."
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- Well, keith, thank you for sharing that wonderful report
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- And to our partners in ministry,
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- With the hope and truth of jesus christ.
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- Your partnership helps us transform lives around the world,
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- Offering biblical truth to a world in need,
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- Discipling believers in their faith and leading people
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- To a life-changing relationship with jesus christ.
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- When we help others, we also help ourselves.
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- Now, that may sound contradictory,
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- But these two end goals don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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- We can live in a way that is both ministry-oriented
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- And personally beneficial.
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- Yes, when we help others, we also help ourselves.
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- Well, none of us is a stranger to problems
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- And even when the trials of life threaten to overwhelm us,
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- God still gives us a million reasons to be thankful.
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- You don't believe me?
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- Well, stay tuned for a preview.
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- What's coming up next in our series,
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- Growing strong in christ?
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- If we're going to become like jesus christ,
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- If we're going to stay focused on jesus christ,
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- We've got to learn how we can regularly
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- Express gratitude to god.
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- Let me ask you, is that a part of your life?
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- I mean, if somebody who knows you very well,
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- Your best friend or your mate
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- Were to use a word to describe you,
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- Would they use the word grateful, thankful?
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- [voiceover] set your dvr and join us next time
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- For the message, count blessings, not sheep,
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- Here on pathway to victory.
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